my station (transmitter),a week ago was at about 200 feet and at eye level and had no problem of reception as long as the receiver was on the window shelf .Ive changed the location because of the kids always playing around it hehehe. Now its about 75 feet on an old electric post just beside the new electric post and about 5 feet of the main power lines.All data received are clear,no interferences due to power lines so my advice is go for this one hehehe.

the only thing is that its not updating datas as often as id like.its updating every 40 seconds.Id like it to go instant transmission hahaha

I got mine through Trademe and the manual that came with it pointed to the scientificsales site for download of the software. http://www.scientificsales.co.nz/software.html They do have Easy weather available too but seem to push Cumulus. They currently only have V1.8.6 available from their website.

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Cumulus is a program for retrieving, storing and displaying data from an electronic Automatic Weather Station (AWS).

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thanks steve for the sticky,should be usefull/easier for others.
together with the sticky-topic from Gina about the sensors,we could find out everything about the station.
unfortunately i had a major crash of my HD and motherboard failure so i lost a lot of stuff about the vane and its connections and resistance values etc.
they should still be somewhere here on the forum so if Gina could copy/paste them in her sensor topic(feel free to copy them from my site),then it all would be in one place.
still trying to find and rescue things to my netbook which now at least keeps my site running.

hans wrote:thanks steve for the sticky,should be usefull/easier for others.
together with the sticky-topic from Gina about the sensors,we could find out everything about the station.
unfortunately i had a major crash of my HD and motherboard failure so i lost a lot of stuff about the vane and its connections and resistance values etc.
they should still be somewhere here on the forum so if Gina could copy/paste them in her sensor topic(feel free to copy them from my site),then it all would be in one place.
still trying to find and rescue things to my netbook which now at least keeps my site running.

I'm glad your thread has been found again, hans I have the resistor values and circuit of the wind vane from the full size version of the circuit board photo so I'll post that. I think I checked it against your values at the time but I'll see what I can find as final check.

Good luck with your data recovery.

Gina

Sorry, no banner - weather station out of action. Hoping to be up and running with a new home-made one soon.

Has anyone investigated replacing the receiver antenna with a highly directional yagi? Also has anyone looked into decoding the signal from the transmitter itself, maybe using a radio scanner and PC interface?